Western Tanager

Description: 6-7 1/2" adult make has brilliant red head, bright yellow body with black back, wings, and tail, two wing bars, smaller uppermost bar yellow, lower white, female yellow-green above, yellow below with wing bars similar to male	Habitat: open coniferous forests of Douglas fir, spruce and pine, mixed woodlands with aspen trees, oak-pinyon woodlands of higher mountains up to 10,000 feet in elevation. Found in lowlands during migration.
Nesting: 3-5 speckled bluish-green eggs in a frail, saucer nest of woven rootlets, weeds and bark strips, saddled in fork of spruce, fir, or pine tree usually at low elevation	Range: breeds from Alaska southward, winters in tropics, rarely wanders east to Atlantic Coast
Voice: song is robin-like in its short, fluty phrases rendered with pause between phrases, call a dry pit-r-ic	Diet: insects, fruit, and a few buds

Notes: Common, but hard to see for such a colorful bird, often sings from exposed branch, female does not flush easily when incubating

When present in Oklahoma: occasional in west part of state during summer